ipa-addservice(1)

NAME
ipa-addservice - Add a service principal

SYNOPSIS
ipa-addservice [OPTION]... principal

DESCRIPTION
Adds a service principal principal. The principal takes the form of: service/fully-qualified-hostname The list of possible services is too extensive to list here but a short list is: cifs dns host HTTP ldap nfs The IPA server automatically appends the Kerberos realm for which it is configured. You cannot specify a different realm. The hostname must resolve to a DNS A record in order to ensure that it will work with Kerberos. Use the --force flag to force the creation of a principal.

OPTIONS

--force
    Force the creation of the given principal name.

-v, --verbose
    Display the XML-RPC request and response for more verbose debugging output.

EXAMPLES

ipa-addservice HTTP/www.example.com
    Add a service principal for a web server

ipa-addservice host/ipa.example.com
    Add a service principal for the host (for ssh, for example)

EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.